Latest Fact-Checks In Terrorism

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 16, 2012 the second presidential debate
Says President Obama waited two weeks to call the attack in Libya "terror."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 17, 2012
Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund
Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund
stated on August 15, 2012 a Web video
The Obama administration "willfully leaked the existence of STUXNET (a computer worm used against Iran), allowing our enemies to learn more of our secrets and of our operations."
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By Jon Greenberg • August 24, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 27, 2012 a Web ad
Says Mitt Romney's comments indicated he would not have pursued Osama bin Laden.
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By Becky Bowers • April 30, 2012
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on May 2, 2011 in various posts on the web
Wrote that in 2006, Nancy Pelosi said she didn’t think capturing Osama bin Laden "makes us any safer," but in 2011 called his killing "historic."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 1, 2011 an address to the nation
"Bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan."
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May 5, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on February 10, 2011 a speech in the House of Representatives
"What we have done with the PATRIOT Act, we've given the government enormous powers. We've given the government the right to reach deeply into people's private lives, into their business affairs, without a court order."
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By James Ewinger • April 18, 2011
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 9, 2011 a hearing
Says that during the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the U.S. detained people from nations designated as state sponsors of terrorism on the southwestern border.
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 1, 2011
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on January 31, 2011 his radio program
Many of the 9/11 conspirators came from the Muslim Brotherhood, including Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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February 4, 2011
Allen West
Allen West
stated on November 21, 2010 TV interview
The U.S. "had the opportunity with Israel coming and talking to us about improving our security screening procedures, and we turned them down."  
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By Amy Sherman • December 8, 2010
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on September 8, 2010 a column
"There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on May 9, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
Says federal law enforcement officers cut off questioning of the Christmas Day underwear bomber by giving him a Miranda warning after 30 minutes of questioning.
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By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2010
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on February 14, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
President Barack Obama's "initial response when we heard about the Christmas underwear bomber" was to say that "this was the act of an isolated extremist."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on September 3, 2009 his television program
Van Jones signed a petition indicating he "thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 a GOP survey
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
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July 14, 2009
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it."
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By Adriel Bettelheim, Ryan Kelly • January 6, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 2, 2007 a television interview.
"America never made up for the gutting of the intelligence services that Bill Clinton did. I think those are (former CIA director George) Tenet's words ... that Bill Clinton gutted American intelligence."
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By Shawn Zeller • November 19, 2007
Tom Tancredo
Tom Tancredo
stated on November 13, 2007 an interview on CNN.
"There was a report that came out from the FBI – a warning, not a report ... saying that, in fact, al-Qaida was planning to attack malls during the Christmas holidays."
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November 5, 2007
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